CHAD JACKSON: ARE DIGITAL TWINS REALLY NEW?

People have been feeding sensor data to simulations for years. How are Digital Twins different? This post explains the key difference between the two scenarios.

…when we’re talking about a digital twin, we’re after something very different. It’s about capturing sensor data from a product in real time and feeding it in real time to a simulation being solved in real time. That’s the biggest difference. It’s not done separately. It’s not done later. It’s being run in real time while the product is in use. We can learn how the product is being used, and in what ways it might be failing.